Vodacom has awarded the contract for the provision of managed broadband services across Africa to satellite operator Intelsat, which will assist Vodacom in offering a differentiated broadband service targeting small office/home office (SOHO) and small and medium enterprise (SME) users.
Under the agreement, Intelsat will provide Ku-band satellite broadband capacity to Vodacom on Intelsat 28 at 32.8 degrees east, and also provide a fully integrated and managed solution powered by Hughes broadband satellite technology.
“We worked closely with Vodacom to address their future business demands, providing capacity through traditional wide and high-throughput satellite spot beams to locations where our customers need it most,” said Grant Marais, Intelsat’s regional vice president, Africa.
“It also reinforces our ability to work with our customers such as Vodacom to anticipate their emerging business demands and tailor our broadband solutions to best fit their business needs and economic model.”
With the Intelsat 33e satellite scheduled to begin service in 2016, Vodacom will be able to seamlessly access a high performance overlay that will provide additional throughput for its busiest regions.
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